Re: Re: Exact Builder of Model Rule
On 1/29/2014 7:42 PM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> Thanks, Don.
>
> So what if someone offered an LPP kit with preformed blades that
> needed to be attached to a spar? Would that be legal because it is
> part of the kit?
>
That is a good question. I would refer to this section:
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**/with "constructed" to be interpreted as the action required to
complete a model starting with no more prefabrication than the amount
used in the average kit/*
It then goes to what one defines as an "average kit". This variation
will probably vary from CD to CD on what they believe an average kit to
be. If I were CD and that was presented to me I would have to define an
"average kit" to make my decision, so I would base it on my personal
experiences over the years on kits I have bought or seen for indoor
models. I have never seen an AMA indoor kit with preformed balsa blades.
The MicroX kits for example like EZB contained wood, plans, covering,
thrust bearings, thrust washers, and wire for prop hook (possibly
prebent I don't recall), and some rubber. So in my personal experience I
would say such a LPP kit with preformed blades would not be what one
would find in an "average kit". It would be an above average kit.
Additionally I don't think the existence of one or two kits with
preshaped blades included would be enough to redefine those kits as the
new "average" and the rest of the kits as below average. How exactly to
redefine the "average kit" to include preformed blades as the new norm
is unclear. So I think it will come down to a CD by CD basis.
In regards to BOM. There are aspects of building indoor models which I
do not particularly enjoy and I have to push through that when I build.
So I can understand why people would want to buy something instead. In
my years of indoor I have only flown one VP prop at two contests. It was
on my Int stick and I flew it in Buffalo before USIC one year and won in
Buffalo and then won USIC that year. I personally hate building VP props
with a passion. I just do. I don't know why but I dread making one like
getting I dread a root canal. I somehow think of me making one as giving
up for not being able to correctly design a prop (how messed up is that!
:-) ) Consequently I have gone out of my way to make model/designs to
sidestep VPs as much as possible in events that allow it. In F1D now it
is mandatory to be able to control the energy release. In the old days a
big old flare prop would get you close. What I am trying to say is in
that one instance I used a VP and won I was very happy with the
accomplishment. If that VP hub had been bought and I used it and won the
victory to me would be completely hollow as the VP is an important
mechanism in making the model fly well. My satisfaction from indoor
models is combination of the building and flying. I prefer the flying
aspect and when successful the having built it is aspect enhances the
satisfaction for me the two are intertwined with each other. I can not
imagine the two separated but that is my view on how it is for me.
In the golf analogy posted earlier, I don't think of BOM as a golfer
having to make his clubs I think of the club as the equivalent of a
thrust bearing. I would analogize the BOM rule as to playing a hole in
golf. So buying a premade VP hub would be like having some one hit the
ball of the tee for you then you finishing the hole from there, and
buying a whole model ready to fly would be like making the putt once
someone else got the ball to the green. You can argue that golf is won
in the short game so who cares about that drive and approach shot :-)
Don S
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